Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear medicine imaging uses small amounts of radioactive material, a special camera and a computer to create images of the inside of your body. It provides unique information that often cannot be obtained using other imaging procedures to help diagnose many types of cancers, heart disease, gastrointestinal, endocrine, neurological disorders and other health conditions. Because nuclear medicine procedures are able to pinpoint molecular activity within the body, they may detect disease in its earliest stages when it is most easily treated.
For the benefits and risks of a specific nuclear medicine procedure, how to prepare, and more, select a topic below.
Children's (Pediatric) Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear Medicine - Hepatobiliary
Positron Emission Tomography - Computed Tomography (PET/CT)
Professions in Nuclear Medicine
Radioactive Iodine (I-131) Therapy
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